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TIL the average commercial airliner gets hit by lightning a little more than once a year

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JMlV TIL that one of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims managed to temporarily escape. He was found naked, drugged and bleeding from his rectum on a street corner. Dahmer convinced police that the boy was his boyfriend and that they had had an argument. The boy was returned to Dhamer and was murdered that night.
JYBMv TIL: There are 30-40 million nomadic people in the world today. In Mongolia, 40% of the population is still nomadic.
yQ5m8 TIL that in 1993, the Pantai Remis landslide occurred in Malaysia, where a massive tin mine collapsed, generating what one academic has described as “the best landslide video ever seen” despite the bad resolution.
4yMa TIL that in 1961, one giga FLOPS would have theoretically cost $8.3 trillion USD (adjusted to inflation) whereas today one giga FLOPS costs 8 cents.
JY7y1 TIL Doggerland is the area of land connecting Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea-levels (6500-6200 BC), turning Great Britain into an island.